Paging and numbering machine.



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Patented July 30, 1912.

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.W. F. HEFFNER. PAGING AND NUMBERING MACHINE. APPLIOATIOH FILED FEB- 9,1910.

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I W. I. HEFFNER.

PAGING AND NUMBBRING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED rm. 9, 1910.

1,034,234. Patented July 30, 1912.

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COLUMBIA PLANOORAPH C0. WASHINGTON. D. C.

' W. F. HEPPNER. PAGING AND NUMBERING MACHINE.

APELIOATION FILED FEB. 9, 1910. 1,034,234.

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amen/tor MM/human Patented July 30, 1912.

WILLIAM F. HEFFNER, 0F BENTON.HARBOR, MICHIGAN.

PAGING AND NUMBERING MACHINE;

Specification of Letters ratent. Patented July 30, 1912.

Application filed February 9, 1910. Serial No. 542,934.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM F. HEFFNER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Benton Harbor, in the county of Berrien and State ofMichigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pagingand Numbering Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the inven tion, such as willenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to theletters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part ofthis specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in apparatus forprinting serial numbers upon the opposite faces of pages of a book andcomprises various details of construction and combinations andarrangements of parts which will be hereinafter fully described, shownin the accompanying drawings and then specifically defined in theappended claims.

My invention is illustrated in the accom panying drawings, in whichFigure 1 is a side elevation of the apparatus. Fig. 2 is an edgeelevation. Fig. 3 an enlarged view in elevation of the upper portion ofthe machine. Fig. 4 is an enlarged edge view of the upper portion of theapparatus. Fig. 5 is a detail view of a pinion and rack mechanismforming a part of the apparatus. Fig. 6 is a detail view of thereversing mechanism.

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by numeral, 1designates a rectangular portion of the framework of the apparatus,supported upon standards 3 and 2. Said standard 3 is hollow, and mountedto have a vertical reciprocating movement within the standard is a shaft5 having a spherical weight 69 at its upper end, tending to normallyhold the shaft 5 at its lowest limit. bearings 7 in the base of theframe is a shaft 8, one end of which extends within the casing 6 formingthe lower portion of the standard 3 and has fixed thereto a disk 10 withan eccentrically mounted pin 11 thereon to which a pitman 12 ispivotally connected, which in turn is pivoted to a cross Mounted insuitable.

head 17 which is adapted to reciprocate between guides 18 within thestandard and said cross head is pivotally connected to thelongitudinally movable shaft 5. Fixed to rotate with said shaft 8 is afriction cone 9*, and 9 and 9 designate pulleys fixed together andloosely mounted upon the shaft 8, said pulley 9 being adapted to bedriven from any source of supply of power while the pulley 9 has beltedconnection 23 with the pulley 22 keyed to the shaft 21. The hub 9 of thepulley 9 has an annular groove therein engaged by the tread or footlever 8 pivotally mounted upon the pin 8. A

belt 23 passes about the pulley 9 and the 1 pulley 22 which is fastenedto shaft 21 journaled in suitable bearings in the bracket member 21fastened to the standard 3. Pulleys 241- and 25 of different diametersare fixed to the shaft 21 and said pulley 24 has belted connection 57with a pulley 56 which is fixed to the shaft 5 1 j ournaled in suitablehorizontal bearings 53 in the superstructure of the apparatus, and thepulley 25 has belted connection 106 with a pulley 105 which is looselymounted upon the shaft 96 mounted in suitable bearings 97. Said shaft54. has fixed thereto a rotatable ink font 55, said ink font having aporous covering 58 through which the ink is allowed to percolate to itscircumference for the purpose of supplying ink to the inking roller 59which is pivotally mounted upon a pin 60 carried by the lower end of thediagonally disposedbar 61, which latter is mounted upon a pivot pin 62carried by an arm 63 which projects from the collar 64 which is securedto the longitudinally movable shaft 5. A

second arm 63 projects from the collar64,

shown clearly in Fig. 3 of the drawings, and piv oted to said arm 63 isa rod 71, which, upon reference to Fig. 1 of the drawings, it will benoted is pivotally connected to a swinging pawl-carrying arm 70. Mountedupon a shaft 27, journaled in the frame of the apparatus, is a drum 28,and ratchet teeth 28 are formed along one end.

of said drum and adapted to be engaged by a pawl 7 0 which is pivotallymounted upon the arm 7 O and provided for the purpose of imparting anintermittent movementto the drum each time the vertically-disposed shaftis raised, the pawl turning idly over the ratchet teeth when said shaft5 returns to its lowest position.

Mounted upon the various sprocket wheels 34, which are j ournaled uponpins 32 and 33 upon the frame of the apparatus, is an end less linkchain 36, the links of which are adapted to carry the serial numbers tobe printed upon the opposite pages of a book, each having a plurality ofnumeral type thereon. Said chain, carrying the numeral type, passes alsoabout the pulleys 14 and 13, thence over a rectangulanshaped pivotalmember 96* fixed to the shaft 96 mounted in. the frame of the apparatusand thence over a pulley 120 journaled upon the pin 119 upon the frameof the apparatus, thence over an adjustable pulley 4:2 pivoted on ascrew 41 movable between the strips 38 and held by a nut 10, thence oversaid pulleys 35 journaled on pins 33 and 34 journaled on pins 32. Theshaft 96 has fixed thereto a pinion 104 which is in mesh with the teethof a rack bar 94, which latter is fastened,

through the medium of the pivot pin 95,

with the arm 92 secured to the collar 90 which in turn is held by meansof set screws 91 to the shaft 5. Said rack bar has its lower endthreaded as at 91* and a bracket arm 1.07 has an aperture through whichthe lower threaded portion of the rack bar passes and which arm 107 isheld upon the rack bar through the medium of a nut 107*, shown clearlyin Fig. 1 of the drawings. The arm 107 has a recessed plate 108 heldthereto by means of bolts 110 and a platen 89 is held in said plate 108.Said shaft 96, which carries the member 96*, has a finger 96 securedthereto and which is shown in side elevation in Fig. 3 of the drawingsand. in end view in Fig. 4 and which is adapted to throw the edge of theleaf downward after the numbers have been printed upon the face thereof,each individual page rests upon the upper end of the arm 95 as the pageis printed, which arm 95 is held by means of the screws 95 to the bar101 which is secured by means of the bolts 102 to the standard 3, asshown in Fig. 1 of the drawings. The shaft 96 has keyed thereto a clutchcollar 112 and a loosely mounted clutch collar 112 is fixed to thepulley 105 and is adapted to be thrown into mesh with the collar 112through the medium of the arm 112 which is fixed to the shaft 112,journaled in the frame of the apparatus. Said shaft- 112 has a collar113 held by means of a set screw 11 1 to said shaft. A coiled spring 115is interposed between the portion of the frame in which the shaft 112 isjournaled and the arm 112 and tends to hold the shaft 112 at itsfarthest throw in one direction, as shown clearly in Fig. 6 of thedrawings.

A reversing lever 111 has a head 111 journaled upon the shaft 112 andhas a cam edge 111 which is normally in contact with a similarlyinclined or cam-shaped edge of the collar 113. Said cam lever 111. isalso in contact with the resilient bar 101, serving as a means forthrowing the bar laterally for a purpose which will presently bedescribed. The shaft 96 has a squared portion 96 against which theresilient bar 101 bears yieldingly, the purpose of which bar 101 is tosteady the shaft 90 and hold the link of the chain while the number ofthe page is being printed. Pivotally mounted upon a lug 85 upon saidframe is a shaft 83, shown clearly in Figs. 1 and 3 of the drawings, andfixed to the shaft 83 is a disk 82 to which an arm 87 is fastened bymeans of screws 86 and also fastened to the disk 82 is an arm 81 whichcarries at one end a pivotal screw 80 to which the lower end of the link77 is pivoted and which in turn is pivotally connected, through themedium of the screw 78, with the collar 7-l which is held by a set screwupon the shaft 5. A plate 84 is fastened to the under surface of the arm87 and carries a platen 88 which is adapted to press the upper surfaceof the leaf against a type numeral upon the endless chain 36simultaneously with the printing of a numeral upon the opposite face ofthe next sheet by the platen 89 being forced up against the type numeralupon the lower face of a link.

In order to prevent any smearing of ink upon the paper, in the event ofthere being no sheet of book to be printed intermediate the platen andthe type incident to the operator failing to insert a page to be printedintermediate the platen and the type, I. provide two endless tapes,designated by numerals 31 and 31", the former of which passes about theplaten 88 and thence about the pulley 118 mounted upon a pivot carriedby the standard 110, thence passing over a pulley 52 mounted upon a pin50 supported by the standard 48 upon the frame, thence down over thepulley 117', thence about the drum 28, thence back over the pulley 4:6journaled upon the pin 4-5, thence about the drum again and about thepulley 4E7, thence again about the drum and about a pulley 43 upon theshaft 43, thence about a pulley 51 upon the pin 19, thence about thepulley 117, thence up over the pulley 117 thence about the platen 88,thus making a continuous tape. The second tape 31 passes about theplaten 89, thence through an opening 109, thence about a pulley 43" upona pivot pin 33, thence about the drum and back over another pulley .3,also upon a pivot pin 33, and thence back to the platen 89, thus makinga continuous tape moving over each platen. As the drum is given anintermittent movement, the tapes are moved slight distances one overeach platen in order to present a dry surface in the event of any inkcoming in contact therewith and which would otherwise blur the printingon the succeeding pages to be printed should the operator fail to inserta page to receive an impression which would ink the tape. The tapesbeing of considerable length would permit the inky parts to dry beforethe same part again came opposite the platen.

Referring to Fig. 5 of the drawings, it will be noted that the pinion104 carries a pin 104C upon which a pawl 104: is pivotally mounted and aspring 104k is also fastened to the pinion and adapted to bearyieldingly against the pawl to cause the same to be thrown into one oranother of the notches 96 formed at positions diametrically opposite inthe shaft 96.

The operation of the apparatus will be readily understood and is asfollows Power is applied to the pulley 9, causing the same to rotatecontinuously, and also the pulley 9 which is fixed thereto. As the footlever 8 is tilted, the pulley 9 is thrown into contact with the frictioncone 9, causing the pulleys 9 and 9 to rotate. Through the medium of thebelted connections 23, 57 and 106, continuous rotary movements will beimparted to the shaft 54 carrying the cylindrical ink font and thepulley 105 which carries the reversing clutch collar 112*. The operatorplaces successive leaves to be printed upon intermediate the platens andthe type upon two of the links of the chain, resting the leaves upon theupper end of the bar 95, then by pressing upon the foot lever may causethe clutch 9 to rotate the shaft 8 which will cause a reciprocatingmovement to be imparted to the shaft 5. As the latter moves upward, theinking roller 59 carried by the bar 61 will be moved against the face ofthe type upon the chain, causing the same to be inked, the bar 61 beingtilted through the medium of the spring 66 which connects one endthereof with the weight 69. As the shaft 5 is driven upward, anintermittent movement will be imparted to the drum about which the tapesride through the medium of the rod 71 and pawl-carrying rod pivotedthereto and which latter carries a pawl for engage ment with the teethon the marginal edge of the drum. As the shaft 5 moves up, the shaft 83,which carries the bar 87 with the platen 88 thereon, will be rockedthrough the medium of the pivotal bar connections 77 and 81, thusthrowing the upper platen down against the type which is positioned uponthe upper face of the link of the type chain, with the tape interveningbetween the platen and adjacent type to be printed upon one side of thesheet. The lower platen will be thrown upward through the medium of therack bar 94 which carries the platen 89 upon a projecting bracket arm107, as

shown clearly in'Fig- 4. of the drawings, thus causing both platens tosimultaneously print serial numbers upon the opposite faces ofsuccessive pages. During the printing of the numbers, the chain will beheld steady by the resilient bar 101 bearing frictionally against one ofthe flat faces upon the shaft 96. Upon the reverse or downward move mentof the shaft 5, the platen will be thrown to the position shown in Fig.3 of the drawings and the inking roller 59 will be moved back incontactwvith the surface of the cylindrical ink font 55 to receive afresh supply of ink. It will be noted that the rack bar, as it movesupward, will cause the pinion wheel 104 to move idly in one directionandwhen thepawl 10 i on pin 104: comes opposite a notch 96 in thecircumference thereof, the spring 104; bearing against the pawlwillcause the latter to engage a notch and on the reverse or downward throwof the pawl an intermittent movement will be imparted to the shaft 96and throw another type with the succeeding serial number thereon to beprinted on the neXt'page.

.In the event of it being desired to reverse the movement of the chaincarrying the type. numerals, the operator by swinging the cam lever 111may cause a longitudinal movement to be imparted to the shaft 112 underthe tension of the spring, 115',

through the medium of the cam surface 111* hearingagainst the similarsurface upon the collar 113*,thus throwing the clutch mem ber 112into'mesh with the teeth of the clutch "112 which is fixed to the shaft96. Simultaneously with the swinging of the cam lever 111, a camprojection upon the end thereof will cause theresilient bar 101 to beheld out of the path of the squared portion. of the shaft 96, thusallowing the shaft to rotate in a reverse direction through the mediumof the belted connecti'on 106 with a pulley thereon, thus returning thechain to its starting position.

From the foregoing, it will be understood that, by the provision of apage printing machine embodying the features of my invention, thenumbers may be printed serially upon the opposite side of each page,

the operator merely holding the pages and allowing each to be insertedintermediate the platens as the different serial numbers are broughtinto position to print succeeding pages.

WhatI claim to be new is z 1. An apparatus for printing serial numbersupon pages of a book comprising a frame, an endless chain, pulleys upon"which the latter travels, type upon the links of the chain, a rotatableshaft, a chain feeding member fixed to said shaft adapted tosimultaneously engage and hold two of the links of the chain, said shafthaving a flattened portion, a stationary resilient bar fixed to theframe and engaging the fiattened part of said shaft to steady the chainfeeding member when the chain is stationary, loosely mounted and fixedclutch collars upon said shaft, a longitudinally movable shaft, an armfixed thereto and engaging said loosely mounted clutch collar, a looselymounted cam lever upon said longitudinally movable shaft, a collar fixedto the latter and having a cam edge against which the cam edge of saidlever is adapted to contact, said lever also bearing against saidresilient bar affording means whereby, as the lever is actuated, the barmay be thrown out of engagement with said rotatable shaft simultaneouslywith the engagement of the clutch collars whereby the shaft carrying thechain feeding member may be rotated in a reverse direction to return thechain to its starting position, platens, and means for moving the samesimultaneously against the type upon different links of said chain, asset forth.

2. An apparatus for printing serial numbers upon pages of bookscomprising a frame, an endless chain, type upon the links of the chain,pulleys about which the chain passes, a horizontally-disposed rotatableshaft having notches in the circumference thereof, a chain feedingmember fixed to the latter, a pinion loosely mounted upon said rotatableshaft, a pawl carried by the pinion and shaft for engagement with saidnotches, a longitudinally movable shaft, means for operating the same,collars fixed to said shaft, a rocking disk mounted upon the frame, armsfixed to the disk, a platen upon one of said arms, a link pivotallyconnecting the other with one of the collars upon said shaft, a rack barfastened to a projecting arm upon one of said collars and engaging theteeth of said pinion, a bracket arm fixed to said rack bar, a platenupon the bracket arm, tapes movable against the platen, and means forimparting intermittent movements to the tapes, as set forth.

3. An apparatus for printing serial numbers upon pages of bookscomprising a frame, an endless chain, type upon the links of the chain,pulleys about which the chain passes, a horizontallydisposed rotatableshaft having notches in the circumference thereof, a chain feedingmember fixed to the latter, a pinion loosely mounted upon said rotatableshaft, a pawl carried by the pinion and shaft for engagement with saidnotches, a longitudinally movable shaft, means for operating the same,collars fixed to said shaft, a rocking disk mounted upon the frame, armsfixed to the disk, a platen upon one of said arms, a link pivotallyconnecting the other with one of the collars upon said shaft, a rack barfastened to a projecting arm upon one of said collars and engaging theteeth of said pinion, a bracket arm fixed to said rack bar, a platenupon the bracket arm, a rotatable drum mounted upon the frame, means forimparting an intermittent rotary movement thereto, endless tapes passingabout said drum and in contact with each platen, a spring-actuated barpivoted to the arms upon one of said collars, and an inking rollercarried by the spring pressed bar, and a rotatable ink font againstwhich the inking roller contacts, as set forth.

4. An apparatus for printing serial numbers upon pages of bookscomprising a frame, an endless chain, type upon the links.

of the chain, pulleys about which the chain passes, ahorizontallydisposed rotatable shaft having notches in the circumferencethereof, a chain feeding member fixed to the latter, a pinion looselymounted upon said rotatable shaft, a pawl carried by the pinion andshaft for engagement with said notches, a longitudinally movable sh aft,means for op erating the same, collars fixed to the disk, a rocking diskmounted upon the frame, arms fixed to said disk, pivotal linkconnections between one of said arms and a collar upon saidlongitudinally movable shaft, a plate upon the other arm of the disk, aplaten fixed to said plate, a rack bar fixed to an arm of one of saidcollars and engaging the teeth of said pinion, a bracket arm fixed tothe rack bar, a platen upon said bracket arm, movable tapes, means forholding the same in contact with said platens, mechanism for impartingintermittent movements to the tapes, a rotatable ink font, a s1:ring-pressed pivotal bar mounted upon one of the arms of said collars,an ink roller pivoted to the spring-pressed bar and adapted to bemovable against the ink font and the tip of said chain, as set forth.

5. An apparatus for printing serial numbers upon pages of bookscomprising a frame, an endless chain, type upon the links of the chain,pulleys about which the chain passes, a horizontallydisposed rotatableshaft having notches in the circumference thereof, a chain feedingmember fixed to the latter, a pinion loosely mounted upon said rotatableshaft, a pawl carried by the pinion and shaft for engagement with saidnotches, a longitudinally movable shaft, a weight secured to the upperend of said shaft, means for operating the latter, collars fixed to thedisk, a rocking disk mounted upon the frame, arms fixed to said disk,pivotal link connections between one of said arms and a collar upon saidlongitudinally movable shaft, a plate upon the other arm of the disk, aplaten fixed to said plate, a rack bar fixed to an arm of one of saidcollars and engaging the teeth of said pinion, a bracket arm fixed tothe rack bar, a platen upon said bracket arm, movable tapes, means forholdlot) ing the same in contact with said platens, In testimony whereofI hereunto affix my mechanism for imparting intermittent movesignaturein the presence of two Witnesses. 10 ments to the tapes, a rotatable inkfont, a

spring-pressed pivotal bar mounted upon WILLIAM F HEFFNER.

one of the arms of said collars, an ink roller pivoted to thespring-pressed bar and adapt- Witnesses:

ed to be movable against the ink font and E'lI-IEL FOWLER,

the type of said chain, as set forth. ALBION WENELL.

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